Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1026755
CUPS is sending invalid data to Samsung ML2540 (via samba)
Last modified: 2015-06-29 08:48:50 EDT
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1026613 +++ Description of problem: Attempted to install two different printers to FC20 Beta (Fedora-20-Beta-x86_64-DVD.iso) using cups-bjnp to a Canon MP980 MFP, and both LPD and smb to a Samsung ML2540 laser printer shared from a Windows 8.1 system. [...] With Samba through Windows 8.1, the Windows system has been configured to allow anonymous access to the printer and the firewall has been disabled. When the print job is submitted from FC20, the job is received by Windows as indicated in the Printer Status window, and forwarded to the printer connected via USB. The Samsung laser printer spins up and activates the fuser, but draws no paper and spins down. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups 1.7.0 cups-bjnp 1.2.1 cups-libs 1.7.0 cups-pk-helper 0.2.5 How reproducible: So far, I've only been able to test locally. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up Canon printer on network, and Samsung laser printer shared via Windows 8.1 with both LPD service and anonymous smb access allowed. 2. Add the printers through the CUPS web interface at https://localhost:631 using bjnp, LPD, and smb access. 3. Submit a job to the printers. Actual results: Printers indicate they are receiving data, but print jobs are not completed. Expected results: Completed print jobs. Additional info: The Canon printer works in FC19 using the cups-bjnp package, and configured through the web interface as described above.
Cloned from bug #1026613. Let's concentrate on the Samsung issue here, using Samba. Could you please follow the troubleshooting procedure outlined here?: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_printing_problems#Printing_troubleshooter
Was unable to complete the testing as outlined in the Fedora wiki due to bug 1027034 - will attack it again this evening. One note to add - the system automatically found a networked HP Laserjet 4014n, and I was able to attach it and print to it without issue through the Printer Settings.
Once official Samsung ML2540 Series PPD was used as the driver, the print job completed successfully. The included Samsung printers within the cups-drivers package does not include the ML2540. I don't know if the driver can be included with the cups package due to licensing, but it solved this particular bug.
Where did you get the PPD ? http://www.openprinting.org/printers/manufacturer/Samsung doesn't have ML-2540 in its database.
I pulled the PPD out of the Samsung Printer Driver 1.00.06 for Linux, dated Aug 5, 2013. I downloaded the tarball from this page: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/ML-2545/XAA# And simply dug through it until I found the ML2540 PPD.
(In reply to Dan Mossor from comment #5) > I downloaded the tarball from this page: > http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/ML-2545/XAA# And simply dug > through it until I found the ML2540 PPD. Ah, thanks. I tried that one too but didn't check the noarch directory. (In reply to Dan Mossor from comment #3) > I don't know if the driver can be included with the cups package due to > licensing, but it solved this particular bug. This PPD requires a rastertosplc filter, which is also part of that tarball (did you install - by running install.sh - the driver ?), but is not open source, so no, there's no way we could include it in any package.
There however is one way how to have an open-source driver for Samsung ML-2540. We have a package called splix, which contains open-source drivers for these Samsung printers. There's a driver for ML-2550 [1], maybe the ML-2540 is not so much different. If you are willing to help, could you install splix package and try the ML-2550 one ? For example in system-config-printer this driver appears as 'Samsung ML-2550, 2.0.0 [en]'. Thank you ! [1] http://splix.ap2c.org/
The splix driver did not work. I tried to print a test page, and the printer spit out a page that simply had this message on it: INTERNAL ERROR - Please use the proper driver. POSITION : 0X0 (0) SYSTEM : h6fw_5.49/x1_op LINE : 180 VERSION : SPL 5.49 10-20-2010
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